7th August 2018
Jersey Bulls FC is formed
With a home ground at St Helier’s Springfield Stadium, the Bulls signed up 30 players for its first season, and appointed Gary Freeman as its first manager. Three months after its founding, the English Football Association welcomed it into Division One of the Combined Counties League. Its first season saw it victorious in each of its first 15 games (excluding the two friendlies it played before the season opened, both of which it lost).
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Other events that occured in August
Jersey-set film The Others is released
- Starring Nicole Kidman and directed by Alejandro Amenábar, The Others is a psychological horror film set in Jersey.
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Jersey’s military government is dissolved
- The Channel Islands’ political recovery from the Occupation of the Second World War was swift, even if the physical scars remain.
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Four men are arrested after French government accusation
- Four men were brought from Jersey to Southampton to answer charges of assassination and vandalism in France.
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Pioneering human rights advocate John Lilburne dies
- John Lilburne was one of the most famous political prisoners of his day and inspired part of the American Constitution.
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